Articles by Grist staff

Charlotte Brody, Health Care Without Harm

Charlotte Brody, a registered nurse, is a founder and executive director of Health Care Without Harm, an international coalition of 416 organizations in 44 countries working to make health care more environmentally responsible and sustainable. Monday, 12 May 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. A sunny, breezy morning. So I walked across Washington instead of taking the Metro. […]

Can You Recycle Me Now?

Cell phone users now have a way to recycle their old phones and support the Sierra Club in the process. About a million mobile phones are tossed out each week in the U.S. as consumers upgrade or switch to different phone service providers, and those old phones leak a bunch of toxic substances, including mercury, […]

Down Under Water

The folks down under will have a lot to be down about if climate change proceeds as projected. Rising temperatures could trigger a 164 percent increase in heat-related deaths in Australia by 2050 and an increase of up to 240 percent in injuries and deaths caused by flooding by 2020, according to a study commissioned […]

DNA-Ok

J. Craig Venter, leader of a team that successfully decoded the human genome, now has his sights set on reading the DNA of an entire ecosystem — the Sargasso Sea, a warm swath of water in the Atlantic around the Bermuda Triangle. Working with teams he’s assembled at private biotech institutes in Maryland, Venter believes […]